leaving london ... too early

I ambitioned to leave abroad for more than 3 years now. So, when my projects were ramping down, I thought it was the right time for a change.

I have then be working on a classical job hunting, and finally found a very challenging and interesting position, in London.

Great, let's discover a new culture, a new life style, new language, new faces... Let's go thru the relocation process. Houses, schools, paperwork...
Changing so much things at once is not easy. I had to make concessions here and there. At a point in time, I have not been able to add the last concession. I was facing a dilemma: keep trying to relocate, have my family back to the original place and commute, or stop everything and return to the starting point.

That was not an easy decision. This is a 6 months project that I had to basically stopped overnight.

I really enjoyed the job, enjoyed the challenges ahead, but in some cases things just do not work as you want.

Ready for a new start ? Yes, I am. Next time, with all the relocation process clarified well ahead of time !

online presence @ work

At the creation of a professional networking tool on the internet some years ago, I was wondering what would be the impact of a public presence on such a tool. At that time, I decided to stay away from that. Wait and see.
Later, I joined, probably starting to think at a new job. Using a professional network to know about a company is so important and effective, that this is a must-do in these recession times (go sign-up if not already done).
Then I came to know facebook. Well, not for me. And I joined, since I can turn the access off to the public. Twitter? Microblogging. Fine. Not for me. Now I am in. Blogging ? ...

The presence on internet -or online presence- can be a very strong tool for Marketing or Public Relations professionals. Probably not an easy job to be everywhere or at least to identify the place with the best ROI, but for sure a new must-do.

However, not everyone is a marcomm employee, and one may not want to disclose his/her personal views, ideas or opinions in a public forum, for good reasons.

So, how to accommodate personal choice of online presence with a company that expect from you to leave a trace on the internet ?

My answer is that the presence on internet have a wide variety of forms. From pure technical questions and answers in dedicated forums, up to blogging personal ideas and positions, or even description of "what are you doing ?", there are lot of ways to be there.

Managers with online presence expectations must have take a reasonable approach, depending on employees willingness to be "present".

Philippe

why not blogging ?

Hi there,

yes, this is my first blog.
I was looking for a place to share ideas, questions and experience
It will probably be there. Just want to see how it goes.

The topics which I will discuss should be around work places, software open source and software integration. At least in the short term ...


Philippe